Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-07-02

Harvard's No. still showed an inability to
maintain the struggle and was gradually
growing less powerful.
At the three-mile flag Yale still main
| increased her lead to three boat lengths. Har-
yard had fallen to 80 and short
ly afterwards increased it through
an attempted squirt. It lasted but for a
| moment. The attempt was beyond their
strength. The pace was too fast to keep up
to and they were obliged to fall back. Their
| admirers noticed it and saw that they were
| supporters of the losing crew.
Yale kept up the stroke of 80 during the
early part of the fourth mile and her long
sweeping strokes brought forth words OF
praise from every mouth. Hurrah for Bob"
Cook was heard long before the race was
| completed, but ssBob" on the referee boat
was carrying far different countenance to
| the enigmatic one he has worn during the
weeks preceding to-day's terrible struggle.
To-day it was wreathed with smiles, and as
he stood at the bow of the boat he was the
picture of happiness. Yale was winning
and he knew it and no man could appreciate
it better.
Nearing the finish Yale increased her
stroke and crossed the line winner by about
five boat lengths. Harvard their last
mile made several desperate attempts at
spurts, but they were devoid of proper re-
Spouse from the oarsmen and they fell fiat
The stroke was increased, but the wind was
gone from the men and they were unable to
exert themselves further.
Yale crossed the finish, making the time
in 22m 56s; Harvards time was 23m. 1925.
The difference in the time between Yale's
time yesterday and Harvards time with
Columbia the other day is explained from
fact that the tide strongly favored the crews
in the Harvard Columbia-race
Another Account of the Race-Yale's
Slow stroke Brings the Blue I'm Front
to Grief.
by United Press1
NEW LONDON, July 1.-The twelfth annual
four-mile straightaway race between eight
cared crews representing Yale and Harvard
universities was rowed this evening over the
Thames river course from Gales Ferry to
Winthrop Point and was won by Yale by
81 lengths. The official time was: Yale
1856; Harvard 2310 1-2. The attendance
something unprecedented. Thursday
night the hotels and boarding houses were
filed to overlooking and to-day every train
and steamboat has brought large delegations.
Every train from New Haven was crowded
and the excursion train late in the afternoon
brought over twenty zone carloads, besides
which large crowd came over on the
steamer Elm City. Trains from the east and
down the New London Northern also brought
large crowds. The scenes along the course
from start to finish were very striking. The
observation train contained twenty-four
we'll packed cars; the grand stand at the
finish was crowded; the large steamers City
of New York, Block Island and Elm City
took large crowds mp the river, and there
were thirty eight large steam and schooner
yachts, besides innumerable smaller craft
anchored along the last mile of the course,
the crowd who saw the race being estimated
at fifteen thousand people. The water was
in excellent condition. being nearly slack
and being rufied only by slight westerly
breeze blowing across the course. At 7:05
the referee signalled for the crews
and at I'll Harvard pushed off from her
float and padded over towards the starting
point Yale was late and did not leave her
float until 7:1S. Both crews padded to the
referees boat and were given their final in
structions, after which they backed into posi-
ton, Yale having the west and Harvard the
east course. This was Yale's vantage point.
but it proved of little real benefit. AT 1928
the word was given, both crews catching the
advantage. Both crews started at a thirty
six stroke, but after the first minute dropped
to thirty-three and thirty-four. Harvard
gradually drew away from Yale and in the
first eighth of mile led by half a length.
Both crews were pulling in perfect form and
the excitement was intense. Yale's power
full stroke, however. soon sent her shell up
inch by inch until at the half-mile flag both
boats, looking from the press boat,
were bow and bow, though the official
timer gives Harvard lead of two seconds.
Harvard's time here was 1854 and Yale's 2:56
Both crews were pulling in fine form, the
body and oar movement of each crew being
as one man. Just after passing the half mile
flag Yale dropped her stroke to thirty-two,
Harvard pulling thirty-four and thirty five.
The exhibition of rowing in this half (the
second) was very fine. Both crews were put
ting in their best efforts, but Yale's slow
stroke proved more effective and her boat
crept slowly to the front and they passed the
mile in $50 and 5:23. Yale was just show
ing clear water ahead of Harvard's boat. The
second half mile was the fastest of the race,
Yale doing it in 224 and Harvard in 2:29.
All through the third half Yale kept her
stroke down to thirty and thirty-three,
four and thirty-6ve. AS they near
ed the navy yard Yale began to
forge ahead and show twenty feet of
clear water between the boats Up to this
point the race had been one of the most hot
~ contested ever rowed between crews from
these two colleges. Off the navy yard Har-
ward spurted and made grand effort to
close the gap, but Yale responded nobly and
at the mile flag had increased her lead to a
length and half, passing the point in
1902, Harvard in 11:141a. At this point
the race was practically settled. Yale was
bar rfr,1
stroke sent her boat at a cattling gait.
Harvard was also pulling in good form, but
her stroke seemed to have lost its effective
ness. In the fifth half Yale gained five Sec
onds and having the race well in hand drop
ped her stroke to thirty and thirty one, Har-
ward still rowing thirty-thr and thirty four.
In the sixth half Yale made an additional
gain of seven and a half seconds: and
passed the 81 mile flag in 14:14 with
lead of four lengths, Harvard's time 1923.
It began to look like procession, especially
as in the seventh half Yale added a fifth
length to her credit, doing the hall in 2:511S
to Harvard's 2:54115, and passing the three
and a half mile flag in twenty minutes to
Harvard's 20:191z. In the last half mile
Harvard made a desperate effort to lessen
Yale's lead, but it was of little avail, Yale
maintaining her slow swinging stroke and
paving very little attention to what Harvard
was doing and dashed across the finishing
line in 1856, an easy winner by four or five
lengths. Harvard's time was 25:101s.
When the Yale men stopped rowing, Gill,
who pulled No.2, fell back in his seat exhaust
ed, overcome by the strain and excitement
The following table shows the number of
strokes pulled by each crew as they passed
the half mile flags and the official time:
Yale's Harvard's Yale's Harvard's
Distance. strokes. strokes time. time
f| $ $!s: IT. { ]; : : 8. IS - -
~ miles. 80. 33 "a 7:5625 s:94